The Oscars have the highest television ratings since 2020

The Academy Awards had the largest television audience in the United States since 2020, with 19.5 million people who watched it live, 4% more than the previous year, according to Nielsen data cited by American media.

The figures represent good news for the world of cinema after audiences bottomed out in 2021, a year in which all award competitions suffered declines. due to the pandemic and where the Oscar ceremony attracted only 10.4 million viewers.

Last night’s ceremony, broadcast by ABC and hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel, drew 4% more viewers than last year, when 18.76 million people watched the Oscars gala.

This way, The 96th Academy Awards had the highest television ratings since 2020. when that ceremony — held a month before the United States went into lockdown due to the pandemic — drew 23.64 million viewers.

The big winner of last night’s gala evening was the film ‘Oppenheimer’ by director Christopher Nolan, winning as many as seven statuettes, including for best film and best director, the first in the long career of the British filmmaker.

The winners

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” triumphed at the 96th Academy Awards this Sunday with seven of the 13 statuettes it could have won, making it the favorite of the night.

Here is the list of winners:

THE BEST MOVIE

‘Oppenheimer’.

THE BEST ADDRESS

Christopher Nolan, for ‘Oppenheimer’.

BEST ACTOR

Cillian Murphy, for ‘Oppenheimer’.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Robert Downey Jr., for ‘Oppenheimer’.

BEST ACTRESS

Emma Stone, for ‘Poor Things’.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, for ‘The Holdovers’.

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

‘Zone of Interest’, Jonathan Glazer.

BEST ANIMATED FILM

‘The Boy and the Heron’, Hayao Miyazaki.

BEST PHOTO

Hoyte van Hoytema, ‘Oppenheimer’.

THE BEST ASSEMBLY

‘Oppenheimer’.

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Holly Waddington, for ‘Poor Things’.

BEST ADAPTED SCENARIO

Cord Jefferson, for ‘American Fiction’.

BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPT

Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, for ‘Anatomy of a Fall’.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

’20 days in Mariupol’, Mstyslav Chernov.

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM

‘The Last Repair Shop’, by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers

BEST PRODUCT DESIGN

‘Poor people’.

THE BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

‘Godzilla minus one’.

BEST SHORT ANIMATED FILM

‘The war is over! Inspired by the music of John & Yoko’, Dave Mullins and Brad Booker.

BEST SHORT FILM

“The Amazing Story of Henry Sugar”, by Wes Anderson.

THE BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLE DESIGN

Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston, for ‘Poor Things’.

THE BEST SOUND

Ludwig Göransson, for ‘Oppenheimer’.

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

‘What am I made for?’, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell

BETTER SOUND

‘Zone of interest’.